Nixon White House Tapes › Tape 258 › Conversation 258-035

Nixon with unidentified visitors in his EOB office on Senior citizens

Thursday, June 17, 1971 · 9:35 PM–9:39 PM ET · Old Executive Office Building · 38 sec

ParticipantsNixon, Richard M. (President); [Unknown person(s)]Conversation258-035 on Tape 258 (tape position 00:53:42–00:55:00)StartThursday, June 17, 1971 at 9:35 PMEndThursday, June 17, 1971 at 9:39 PMRecording deviceOld Executive Office BuildingSourceNixon Library record for 258-035 ↗

AI Summary

President Nixon met with an unknown individual to review and finalize revisions for a message concerning senior citizens. The discussion focused on streamlining the draft by incorporating specific sections on property tax legislation while maintaining a concise overall length. Nixon ultimately decided against adding further content, concluding that the current document was already sufficiently comprehensive.

  • Senior citizens
  • Property tax
  • Speech writing
  • Legislative policy
  • White House drafting

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The only two things that could be added, because I think that we want to get into central themes, is a short paragraph on the property tax law and another paragraph on the law that gives us a job to work on that.
I'll send a copy back over to you.
I don't want to add anything on it.
There are several other excellent things they've done.
There's so much in it already that it just doesn't matter.
This is just mine.

NARA Description

On June 17, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and unknown person(s) met in the President's office in the Old Executive Office Building at an unknown time between 9:35 pm and 9:39 pm. The Old Executive Office Building taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 258-035 of the White House Tapes.

Nixon Library Finding Aid

Conversation No. 258-35

Date: June 17, 1971
Time: Unknown between 9:35 pm and 9:39 pm
Location: Executive Office Building

The President talked with an unknown person

     “Senior Citizens” message
          -Changes in speech draft
          -Property tax
          -Length

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Cite this conversation

Conversation 258-035, June 18, 1971. White House Tapes, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives. Audio and AI transcript via Easy Nixon, https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/258-035 (accessed October 12, 2026).